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WordPress
WordPress wins. It has won. It is victorious.
Maybe you don’t like it because the kids use it for that bloggy whatchamathing, or you don’t “trust” PHP. And maybe you should get a new set of tennis balls for the feet on your walker.
Maybe you hand-coded the baddest-ass blogging platform that ever lived, or wrote a fifty page essay on the abstract taxonomy of your CMS. That was t0t4LLy 1337 ov j00 ! 1 ! 1 !
But today, your tool is a loser.
Your tool took a stack of customized templates to the jaw. It took a push-button upgrade to the kneecap. It took a boatload of security updates to the plexus. It took a thousand plugins to the gut. Your tool got it’s ass kicked for free. Your tool got dragged out of the bar and died in the parking lot. “Stay gold, Ponyboy!” said your tool. It was a touching moment. But now it is dead.
WordPress won’t always be on top. Someday MechaGodzilla will rise from the oceans and slay all other content managers with breath of flaming code. But for now, WordPress.
The Theme Formerly Known as DePo Clean
Derek Powazek made a minimalist theme loosely based on Hemingway, but in pure black and white with a strong grid. He uses it on his site. It looks nice. He let the world have at it.
So I washed out the black and white, fattened it up, ruined the grid. But also cleaned up the code and added some features. Then I used the resulting bastard hybrid on my site. Because it was there.
Akismet
If the zombie horde ate spam instead of brains, it would be a very different apocalypse.
Google Reader
When Google serves SoyLent Green to an enslaved Earth, it’s going to taste AWESOME.
del.icio.us
Duh.
(if Yahoo screws this one up, the blood will run deep in the streets of nerdville…)
Stone
When my hippie parents drove to California with infant me, they landed in San Marcos and then moved to Escondito. Several decades later, this is exactly what Stone Brewing Company did. And now I survive on their beers. Coincidence??
